Dr Susan D Blum
@susandblum.bsky.social
Writer, observer, educator, anthropologist, sourdough baker, gardener, linguistic anthropologist. Obsessive about the planet, politics, justice, health. Fascinated by humans.
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Octavia Butler in The Parable of the Talents (1998) writes of a fascist presidential candidate who urges followers, "Help us to make America great again." (p. 15)
Chilling prophet!
Chilling prophet!
May 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Octavia Butler in The Parable of the Talents (1998) writes of a fascist presidential candidate who urges followers, "Help us to make America great again." (p. 15)
Chilling prophet!
Chilling prophet!
May 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as a browser. They block attempted tracking.
May 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as a browser. They block attempted tracking.
April 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing such a rich list of books about #highered! I am reading half a dozen books now and probably won't get to these all right away. But I can look at them!
April 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing such a rich list of books about #highered! I am reading half a dozen books now and probably won't get to these all right away. But I can look at them!
April 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Honoring our trans siblings on this International Transgender Day of Visibility.
We love you. We need you. We admire you.
This is a very hard moment. I'm so sorry.
We love you. We need you. We admire you.
This is a very hard moment. I'm so sorry.
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Honoring our trans siblings on this International Transgender Day of Visibility.
We love you. We need you. We admire you.
This is a very hard moment. I'm so sorry.
We love you. We need you. We admire you.
This is a very hard moment. I'm so sorry.
Two books I've been eagerly awaiting have arrived! @traciecanada.bsky.social @biblioracle
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Two books I've been eagerly awaiting have arrived! @traciecanada.bsky.social @biblioracle
Got this book in the mail today! I'd read the proofs (wrote a blurb) but it is a handsomely produced physical book too! @aaronblack.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Got this book in the mail today! I'd read the proofs (wrote a blurb) but it is a handsomely produced physical book too! @aaronblack.bsky.social
Asia has....a lot of people
January 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Asia has....a lot of people
"All flourishing is mutual." Robin Wall Kimmerer puts this on the back of her delicate newbook, The Serviceberry.
I can't think of a better sentence to repeat.
I can't think of a better sentence to repeat.
December 23, 2024 at 9:32 PM
"All flourishing is mutual." Robin Wall Kimmerer puts this on the back of her delicate newbook, The Serviceberry.
I can't think of a better sentence to repeat.
I can't think of a better sentence to repeat.
December 23, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I've been obsessed with trying to figure out how people can learn well even in alienating systems. My book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning (Cornell 2024) is my latest thinking about it. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
December 19, 2024 at 10:38 PM
I've been obsessed with trying to figure out how people can learn well even in alienating systems. My book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning (Cornell 2024) is my latest thinking about it. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
It's kinda glorious around here
December 16, 2024 at 10:21 PM
It's kinda glorious around here
Noncitizens do the work
December 10, 2024 at 5:28 AM
Noncitizens do the work
I'm really eager to read this book,"Designed to Fail: A History of Education in the United States," by @irasocol.bsky.social !
#EduSky
#EduSky
December 2, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I'm really eager to read this book,"Designed to Fail: A History of Education in the United States," by @irasocol.bsky.social !
#EduSky
#EduSky
I didn't go to the American Anthropological Association meetings in Tampa. But Schoolishness did!
Photo by Holly Donahue Singh
Photo by Holly Donahue Singh
November 22, 2024 at 7:58 PM
I didn't go to the American Anthropological Association meetings in Tampa. But Schoolishness did!
Photo by Holly Donahue Singh
Photo by Holly Donahue Singh
Sierra magazine, Fall 2024, p. 9, "The EPA estimates that there are about 2.2 million unsealed [oil] wells in the United States."
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November 20, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Sierra magazine, Fall 2024, p. 9, "The EPA estimates that there are about 2.2 million unsealed [oil] wells in the United States."
@anneapplebaum's 2024 book, Autocracy, Inc. : The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, is powerful in its explanatory reach. And terrifying. She does dedicate it "For the optimists" so maybe at the end I'll feel differently
November 17, 2024 at 3:32 PM
@anneapplebaum's 2024 book, Autocracy, Inc. : The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, is powerful in its explanatory reach. And terrifying. She does dedicate it "For the optimists" so maybe at the end I'll feel differently